Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! has a relatively short but iconic run: 41 classic episodes across three seasons from 1969–1978, starting with “What a Night for a Knight” and ending with “The Beast Is Awake in Bottomless Lake.”

Quick Scoop

Here’s the core of the Scooby Doo Where Are You episodes you’re asking about, framed like a mini guide for a blog post.

What the show is

  • Animated mystery-comedy series produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing on CBS starting in September 1969.
  • Follows Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma as they unmask “monsters” who turn out to be people in costumes almost every time.

How many episodes and seasons

  • Total: 41 episodes across the original series run.
  • Seasons breakdown:
    • Season 1 (1969–1970): 17 episodes.
* Season 2 (1970): 8 episodes.

* Season 3 (1978, sometimes bundled as “Scooby’s All-Stars” / “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!”): 16 episodes.

Key early episodes fans search for

  • Debut: “What a Night for a Knight” – first aired September 13, 1969.
  • Other fan-favorite season 1 titles:
    • “A Clue for Scooby-Doo”
    • “Hassle in the Castle”
    • “What the Hex Going On?”
    • “Never Ape an Ape Man”

Sample episode list in HTML table

Here’s an HTML snippet you can drop straight into a post for the earliest run of episodes (Season 1):

html

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>#</th>
      <th>Episode title</th>
      <th>Original air date (US)</th>
      <th>Season</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>1</td>
      <td>What a Night for a Knight</td>
      <td>September 13, 1969</td>
      <td>1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>2</td>
      <td>A Clue for Scooby-Doo</td>
      <td>September 20, 1969</td>
      <td>1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>3</td>
      <td>Hassle in the Castle</td>
      <td>September 27, 1969</td>
      <td>1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>4</td>
      <td>Mine Your Own Business</td>
      <td>October 4, 1969</td>
      <td>1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>5</td>
      <td>Decoy for a Dognapper</td>
      <td>October 11, 1969</td>
      <td>1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>6</td>
      <td>What the Hex Going On?</td>
      <td>October 18, 1969</td>
      <td>1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>7</td>
      <td>Never Ape an Ape Man</td>
      <td>October 25, 1969</td>
      <td>1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>8</td>
      <td>Foul Play in Funland</td>
      <td>November 1, 1969</td>
      <td>1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>9</td>
      <td>The Backstage Rage</td>
      <td>November 8, 1969</td>
      <td>1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>10</td>
      <td>Bedlam in the Big Top</td>
      <td>November 15, 1969</td>
      <td>1</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

(Full tables for all 41 episodes can be built out in the same structure; the authoritative titles and dates are on Scoobypedia and Wikipedia.)

A tiny storytelling touch

Fans often remember the show in a very specific rhythm: the van in the dark, a spooky location, a masked phantom, and a chase set to late‑60s pop‑rock as Scooby and Shaggy improvise their way through danger before the unmasking.

Those Scooby Doo Where Are You episodes from the original run are still the template modern Scooby series and specials keep echoing today.

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A complete, friendly guide to the classic Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episodes, covering seasons, standout mysteries, and how today’s fans are still binging the original 1969–1978 run.

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